Bug 104390 - gdm has an absolute symlink that should be relative
Summary: gdm has an absolute symlink that should be relative
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Status: CLOSED RAWHIDE
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Raw Hide
Classification: Retired
Component: gdm
Version: 1.0
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Ray Strode [halfline]
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Blocks: CambridgeTarget
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2003-09-14 18:48 UTC by Nathan G. Grennan
Modified: 2007-04-18 16:57 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2004-11-11 04:16:15 UTC
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Description Nathan G. Grennan 2003-09-14 18:48:28 UTC 
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User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.5b) Gecko/20030911
Galeon/1.3.8

Description of problem:
This symlink needs to be relative instead of absolute.

/usr/share/applications/gnome-gdmsetup.desktop

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
gdm-2.4.4.0-2

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. cd /usr/share/applications
2. ls -al gnome-gdmsetup.desktop

    

Actual Results:  Absolute symlink

Expected Results:  Relative symlink

Additional info:
Comment 1 Ray Strode [halfline] 2004-11-10 22:59:20 UTC 
Hi Nathan,

Why do you want the symlink to be relative instead of absolute?  Are you running
chroots or something?
Comment 2 Nathan G. Grennan 2004-11-11 01:44:49 UTC 
The original goal was menu editing. The code would copy the symlinks
and would need to use a modified desktop file with the same name in
the user's home directory. So with absolute symlinks it would still
point to the original and break things. Plus the majority of links are
relative.
Chroots are also a good point.
Comment 3 Ray Strode [halfline] 2004-11-11 04:16:15 UTC 
should be changed in rawhide soon.
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